DrNicole Vincent

Having taught digital logic and computer systems engineering in the mid-1990 at Swinburne University, in 1998 Dr Vincent obtained her BA (Hons) with majors in computer science and philosophy from La Trobe University. In 2006 she taught political philosophy, philosophy of law, and professional ethics at the University of Auckland in New Zealand, and in 2007 she obtained her PhD from the University of Adelaide with a dissertation in philosophy of law entitled "Responsibility, Compensation and Accident Law Reform".

Between 2007 and 2016, while working at Technische Universiteit Delft in The Netherlands, she developed an enduring passion for the ethics of emerging technologies. While there, she was initially a postdoc on a neurolaw research project entitled "The Brain and The Law". Subsequently, she was chief investigator on her project "Enhancing Responsibility: the effects of cognitive enhancement on moral and legal responsibility", leading a group of postdocs investigating the effects of emerging cognitive enhancement technologies (including smart drugs) on legal and moral responsibility. Concurrently, between 2011 and 2013 she was also a research fellow at Macquarie University, developing her earlier work on responsibility and neuroscience in a project entitled "Reappraising the Capacitarian Foundation of Neurolaw"; and from 2013 until 2017 she was Associate Professor of Philosophy, Law, and Neuroscience at Georgia State University in the USA. In 2017 she returned to Australia and taught political philosophy and metaphysics at Macquarie University, as well as media at the University of New South Wales.

In 2018 Dr Vincent joined TD School at University of Technology Sydney (UTS) as Senior Lecturer, where she teaches a wide range of subjects often with a focus on complexity, technology, and ethics, and she also supervises Honours and PhD students. Since 2022, Dr Vincent has also served as Deputy Chair on UTS's Health and Medical Research Ethics Committee.